Late Update

We have created our official site and are hoping to release it anytime soon.

Does anyone have any suggestions for the book to choose for our next bookclub online meeting?

Just a note to remind you the discussions will be done through the internet forum.

Thank you

We apologize for the late post.

What did you think?

It’s been a week and we’ve gotten to our dead line! You should have gotten to the 100th page by now.

Tell us what you thought of the book?

You can comment and discuss the themes, characters, tone of the narrator, and quote from the book parts that interested you.

Don’t be afraid to be honest. You can tell us if you loved it or hated it!

Waiting for your thoughts

Orhan Pamuk

Here is a short video about the author of The New Life.

If you would like more information you can also visit his site click on Orhan to get there.

Our First Book!

 

We have chosen our first book to be read and discussed in our Bookaholics Club! The book is written by the author Orhan Pamuk, who is usually known for his other book called My Name Is Red. The New Life seems to be an intresting book which many people can enjoy. Since the Pamuk is a Turkish writer, the book is really a translation so is quite easy to read. You will find the book in Virgin Megastore in Marina Mall Salmiyah at the price of 4.700KD.

Go out, buy it, and be ready to share your point of view to people who care!

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We are working on creating a forum but right now we will post ever week so everyone can comment on the book. The book is about 300 pages this will be split up into 3 weeks (each week 100pages). It is okay if you are not able to catch up, just enjoy the book.

New idea!

Thinking lately about making it easier for everyone to have a chance to join this club, we came up with the idea of using the blog as a place of discussion. If later this becomes successful, we can make a forum for it!

What does everyone think about this idea?

We’re Back…

It’s summer. I have received many comments asking me where we meet and other things. We want to start but still don’t have enough members and a good location. It is clear that Kuwait does not have enough varities of books to choose from so we are limited. Does anyone have any suggestions what we can do to solve these problems?

Thank you for the comments and sorry we have been caught up with our work.

Updating

Sorry, we have not been able to update our blog. Are some of you still interested in attending this bookclub?

Suggested Reading

                                                
 

Blink is about the first two seconds of looking–the decisive glance that knows in an instant. Gladwell, the best-selling author of The Tipping Point, campaigns for snap judgments and mind reading with a gift for translating research into splendid storytelling. Building his case with scenes from a marriage, heart attack triage, speed dating, choking on the golf course, selling cars, and military maneuvers, he persuades readers to think small and focus on the meaning of “thin slices” of behavior. The key is to rely on our “adaptive unconscious”–a 24/7 mental valet–that provides us with instant and sophisticated information to warn of danger, read a stranger, or react to a new idea.

http://www.gladwell.com/blink/index.html

Sophie’s World is a long, dense novel, a bestseller in the author’s native Norway, offers a summary history of philosophy embedded in a philosophical mystery disguised as a children’s book-but only sophisticated young adults would be remotely interested. Sophie Amundsen is about to turn 15 when she receives a letter from one Alberto Knox, a philosopher who undertakes to educate her in his craft. Sections in which we read the text of Knox’s lessons to Sophie about the pre-Socratics, Plato and St. Augustine alternate with those in which we find out about Sophie’s life with her well-meaning mother. Soon, though, Sophie begins receiving other, stranger missives addressed to one Hilde Moller Knag from her absent father, Albert. As Alberto Knox’s lessons approach this century, he and Sophie come to suspect that they are merely characters in a novel written by Albert for his daughter. Teacher and pupil hatch a plot to understand and possibly escape from their situation; and from there, matters get only weirder. Norwegian philosophy professor Gaarder’s notion of making a history of philosophy accessible is a good one.

The Zahir. This book, whose title means “the present” or “unable to go unnoticed” in Arabic, has an initial staggered laydown of eight million copies in 83 countries and 42 languages. It centers on the narrator’s search for his missing wife, Esther, a journalist who fled Iraq in the runup to the present war, only to disappear from Paris; the narrator, a writer, is freed from suspicion when his lover, Marie, comes forward with a (true) alibi. He seeks out Mikhail, the man who may be Esther’s most recent lover and with whom she was last seen, who has abandoned his native Kazakhstan for a kind of speaking tour on love. Mikhail introduces the narrator to a global underground “tribe” of spiritual seekers who resist, somewhat vaguely, conventional ways of living. Through the narrator’s journey from Paris to Kazakhstan, Coelho explores various meanings of love and life, but the impact of these lessons is diminished significantly as they are repeated in various forms by various characters. Then again, 65 million readers can’t be wrong; the spare, propulsive style that drove The Alchemist, Eleven Minutes and Coelho’s other books will easily carry fans through myriad iterations of the ways and means of amor.

The Celestine Prophecy is a very philosophical story that explains spiritual theories through a story. A very captivating book that steers the mind in different directions and has the reader question his own beleifs over and over again. This book has nine insights that with thought can improve your own life without actually beleiving in the literal meaning translated from the book.
If you enjoy reading philosophical books that have to do with such things as auras, you will fall in love with this book. The book will give you insights that you wouldn’t have thought of and it’ll have you come up with many ideas of your own.

Hello All Bookaholics

Hi Everyone!

Welcome to the first Official Kuwaiti Bookaholic Club.

This is a bookclub for people who love to read. So do you like to read? Do you have opinions you would like to share with the world? Did you ever read a goodbook and never had anyone to discuss it with?

If your answers are “yes” to any of the upbove questions,  you have come to the right place! Join our bookclub today and together we might be able to make a difference in Kuwait!

We are currently looking for suggestions of a goodbook to start with. We will be waiting for your reply. Tell your friends and family spread the word!

Thank you!

P.s We will only be reading English books.